Selective cipher cut-out for adding-machines.



C. P. WETMURE & P: A. NIEMANN.

SELECTIVE CIPHER GUT-OUT FUR ADDING MACHINES.

' APPLIUATION FILED APR. 24, 1907.

1 i Patented Feb. 2, 1915.

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SELECTIVE GIPHER GUT-OUT FOE ADDING MACHINES.

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G. P. WETMORBdz P. A. NIEMANN. SELECTIVE OIPHER GUT-OUT FOR ADDING MACHINES.

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0. PQWETMORE & F. A. NIEMA'NN. SELECTIVE GIPHEE GUT-OUT FOR ADDING MAGHINES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

- Patented Feb. 2, 1915.'

Application filed April 24, 1907. Serial No. 369,979.

To all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that We, CHARLES P. WET- MORE and FREDERICK A. NIEMANN, citizens of the United States, residing in Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Selective Cipher Cut-Outs for Adding-Machines, of which the following is a specification."

Our invention relates to printing adding machines, and the particular embodiment of it here shown is indicated as applied to the printing adding machine commonly known as the comptograph, and generally shown in the various United States patents heretofore issued to Dorr E. Felt for printing adding machines and their mechanism, and more particularly shown in the patent to Felt and Vetmore,853,5413, issued May 14, 1907; and

the object of our invention is to provide mechanism whereby theautomatic filling in of ciphers to the right of any digit printed may be optionally presented to the right of either one or more, as the operator may select, of a plurality of the orders'in the machine, to the end thatthe operator may at will and selectively divide the listing into either two or more parallel columns variously differing in relative width and printable simultaneously without lateral shiftingof the paper in the machine.

Our invention has for further objects the effecting of such other improvements in structure and function as may be found to obtain in the ldevices hereinafter described or claimed.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is" a vertical sectional view taken lengthwise through the rear portion of the machine, to show more particularlythe printing mechanisms and indicate their connection with the adding mechanisms; Fig. 2-is a rearview' of the cipher cut-out devices and the portion of the printingmechanism with which they more directly cooperate; Figs. 3 and 4 are fragmentary side views of parts of the cutout mechanism: and certain of the printing and adding mechanisms with which they more directly cooperate; Fig. 5 is a frag mentary sectional view on the line 55 of Fig. 3; Fig. 6 is a fragmentary side view of the mechanism for actuating the comb form-. ing part of the printing mechanism shown. 1n Figs. 4 and 5; Fig. 7 is a fragmentary 'side view showing the connections between the cut-out mechanism proper and the device for manually setting the same; Fig. 8 is a side view of the-hand knob, shown in Fig. 2, for selectively setting the cut-outs; Fig. 9 isa vertical sectional view lengthwise .of the machine to show the general relations of the adding and printing mechanisms; Fig. 10 is a partial diagrammatic view of the gang of U-bars, indicating their relationto the hammer pawls and the tips of the tailpiece levers; Fig. 11 is a perspective view showing two of the overlapping hooked clips 40 that cooperate to efie'ct the normal cipherprinting action of the machine; and Fig. 12 is a perspective view of the entire ciphertransfer clip devices on the tail-piece levers.

Like reference numerals indicate like parts in all of the figures.

For each of the nine or more orders in senting the 0 at the printing line when in, the normal position shown in Fig. 1. The paper held. between the rollers 21, 22 projects upward between the type segments and the paper guide 23, and thesaid guide is provided with an opening, transverse of the printing line, so that the paper may be struck and impressed upon the type of any type segment 20 when the corresponding spring-actuated type-hammer 24 is released,

the machine there ,isa type segment, such as 20, bearing the ten types 0, 1, 2,

is a separate one for each pawl, each such U- bar being provided with a projection adapted to engage-the-free arm of its corresponding hammer pawl. The patent to Dorr E. Felt, No. ($4 4,287, sets forth, at page 5 of its specification, the general operation of.

these U-bars, which are called releasingframes infisaid patent. These U-bars pass around the paper guides 27, 28, through which the paper enters the machine, and are actuated, in their forward hammer-pawl releasing movement, by the tail-pipce levers 29, one for each U-bar and arranged to engage with and be actuated by the comb-bar 32 and cured to the tail-pieces 30 pivoted on the .transverse rod 31, and such of them as are in any instance intended to engage the cor.- rcsponding U-bars are actuated in two successive movements :First, they are individually moved forward just far enough so that each shall engage the comb-bar 32 by means of a curved slot 33 in the arm 34: that projects rearward from each of said levers Q9, and second, the said combbar 32, which extends transversely across all of the tail-piece levers and is' held between the rock-arms 35, is rocked downward sufficiently to force forward all of the said tail-piece levers in whose curved slots 33 said comb-barvthen happens to be engaged, thereby effecting just the proper forward movement of the said tail-piece levers to cause their upper vends to engage with and actuate the corresponding U-bars. The aforesaid patent to Felt No. 644,287, at page 5 of its specification, sets forth the general operation of said comb-bar, which is called a cross-bar in said patent. It is thus obvious that the first of these two elements in the forward movement of the tail-piece levers is the setting action that determines which of the U-bars shall be actuated and, hence, which of the hammer pawls shall be released and cause corresponding type impressions to be made upon the paper. And this initial setting-movement of the tailpiece levers is always effected in one or the other of two ways In the normal operation of the machine, the pulling of the hand crank or prime actur 'ator moves some or all of the series of main adding levers 36, of which there is one for each order, the extent of movement of each of. such levers 36 having been predetermined by the setting of a digit-key in the corresponding order' of the key-operated mechanism; and if any key of a value of 1 or higher, is set in any order, it predetermines a just sufficient movement of the corresponding main lever 36 to effect, on the one hand, the proper movenientjof the addingmechanism and proper setting of the corresponding type segment 20, and also to effect, 'on the other hand, the first slight forward movement of the tail-piece above mentioned, each tailpiece being engaged by the hooked end 37 of the corresponding main lever 36 so that such tail-piece will be rocked forward on the pivot 31 when such main lever is rocked on its own pivot 38. Thus, if a key has been set in any order, the movement of the prime actuator will causethe main lever of that order not only to move the adding mechanism and set the type segment to the proper d 1g1t, but also toset forward the corresponding tailpiece lever 29 so that the latter will engage effect the operation of the corresponding U bar and hammer pawl. But if no key is set in any given order or orders, there will be no appreciable movement of the corresponding main lever or levers 36 to effect any of the results just specified, and consequently there will be no hammer-release, and no printing faction, in such order or orders unless the tailpiece levers of such order or orders shall be moved forward to set position, to engage with the comb-bar, by means of other mechanism not thus far described. Such other mechanism is the automatic cipher-printing mechanism, whereby .each tail-piece lever automatically engages the tail-piece lever of the next right hand order, so that when the setting of a digit-key in any order has caused, in the manner above described, the corresponding tailpiece lever to be set forward to printing position, the said tail-piece lever will in turn,set forward the next right hand tail-piece lever if the latter has not been set through a movement of the main lever 36 in its own order,-

and such setting of said next right hand le- "ver would in turn and in like manner eflect the setting forward of the next righthand lever, and so on to the end of the series. In this manner, the setting of any tail-piece lever to effect the printing of the digit-type that has been raised into position by the corresponding type segment causes all of the right hand or lower tail-piece levers, not so set, to be set forward to effect the printing of the ciphers normally presented at the printing line by the corresponding type-segments. This automatic filling in of the ciphers to the right of any digit printed, is efi'ected, in the mechanism shown in the drawings, by a series of hooked clips 40 attached to the tail-piece levers, and so arranged that each such clip shall overlap the next lower or right hand one, withthe result that the movement of any one of them will compel the simultaneous forward movement of all of the others to the right, that is, of lower order. I

The foregoing description sets forth .the normal automatic cipher-printing action, whereby the machine is enabled to print a single solid column of numbers, of any number of places within its capacity, filling. in automatically all the necessary ciphers, notwithstanding that only the digit keys of significant value are set by the operator. But it is frequently desirable that, instead of printing such single solid column, the operator shall be enabled to print two or more narrower columns in the listing of two or more different kinds of items; and in order to separate such columns from each other it is of course necessary that the automatic cipher-printing shall be presented immediately to the right of each such narrow column to the left of the extreme right hand' ator should be enabled thus to divide the listing at either one or more of several different places within the full series of type orders, so that the aforesaid narrow columns may at will be made of differing widths and positions. Thisselective and optional interruption of the automatic cipher-printin'gis effected by the combination of the above described mechanism with the following-described further devices. I

In the orders that are intended to be effect- 4 ed, the hooked clips 40 are modified into the speeial forms 4l, 42 and For the purpose of cutting out the automatic ciphertransfer in the second order so that there shall be no transfer of movement, for automatic cipher-printing, immediately to the right of the third order, the special hooked clip 41 is pivoted instead of rigidly fixed on the tail piece lever of the second order, and

is provided with a clip 44, engaging a forked crank-arm 45, whereby the said clip may be so shifted, on its pivot, as to be removed from engagement with the clip of next higher order and yet retain its engagement'with a projection on the tail-piece lever of next lower order, so that when the said special clip is in this shifted position no movement can be transferred from the tail-piece lever of next higher order but any movement of the tail-piece lever to which the said clip is attached will betransferred to the tailpiece lever of next lower order, and, as a result, no printing action in the third -order will occasion any cipher-printing in the second ordergbut any digit-printing in the second order will cause a cipher to be printed in the first order. vThe forked crankarm 45, whereby the special clip 41 is shifted, is pivoted on the shaft 46 and is integral with the crank-piece 47, and the latteris pivotally secured at 48 to the crank connection 49, actuated by the cam 50, with which it is held'in contact by the spring 51. The said cam 50 is rigidly secured to the rod 52, and the latter is turned by means of the indexed thumb knob 53. The same cam 50 bears a crank pin 54, upon which is pivoted the further crank connection 55, and the latter actuates, through the auxiliary yielding connection 5657, the further pivotal crankpiece 58 whose forked arm 59 engages and shifts the other special hooked clip 42 that is pivoted on the tail-piece lever of the 'sev- I arm 59 and also passes under and'normally engages the special hooked clip .43 that is rigidly secured to the tail-piece lever of the eighth order. -When the aforesaid special pivoted clip 42 is shifted, by the crank-arm 59,'to the extent of half of its possible movement, the hook-arm 62 is still in engagement with the inner face 'ofthe special hookedclip 43, so that any movement of the tailpiece lever of the eighth order, which bears said hooked-clip 48, will still be transferred to the tail-piece leverof the seventh order, but the hook 60 is brought over the notch 63 in the heel-piecefil, thereby freeing the tail-piece lever offthesixth order, to which said heel-piece is seen ed, from any connection whatever with t e tail-piece lever of the seventh order, with the result that the cipher transfer is interrupted from the seventh to the sixth order, although still retained betweenthe eighth and the seventh orders. But a stillfurther shifting of the pivoted special clip 42, to the full extent of its possible movement, will bring the hookarm 62 entirely out from under engagement with the special hooked-clip 43 of the eighth order and will at the same time bring the hook 60 into engagement with the secondary heel 64 on the heel-piece 61 that is secured to the tail-piece lever of the sixth order, so that the transfer connection from the seventh order to the sixth order will now be restored, but the connection from the eighth eighth order, while retained immediately to the right of the seventh order. Thus, the extent to which the forked crank-arm 59 may be moved will determine whether the cipher-transfer is interrupted in the seventh order or in the sixth order,. ahalf movement of such arm serving to interrupt 'it in the sixth order only, and a full movement of such arm serving to interrupt it in the seventh order only. The extent of movement of said crank-arm is of course determined through its connections with the above mentioned crank-pin 54 on the cam 50, and the-movement of the latter is of course determined by the manual rotation of the indexed thumb knob 53. h The said crank-pin 54 and the ope'rative face of the cam 50 are so arranged and timed in relation'to each other that the said crank-pin may be brought into position to actuate, through its connections, the cipher cut-out in either the sixth order alone or the seventh order alone, without in either casetallowing the cam 50 to actuate, through 'its connections, the cipher cutout in the sec- 'ond order.

that the crank-pin 54, through its connections, effects thecipher cut-out in either the sixth order or the seventh order. Thus, the operator may at will effect a cipher cut-out in the sixth order alone or in the seventh order alone, or simultaneously in the sixth order and the second order, or simultaneously in the seventh order and the second order, or may restore the complete automatic cipher-printing throughout the entire series of orders in the machine. It is thus provided that the operator'may at will and selectively effect a cipher cut-out in either one or more than one of a plurality of different places in the full printing width of the machine. v

The cut-outs are here shown as applied at respectively the 2nd, the 6th and the 7th orders, because such distribution is in general a very convenient arrangement upon the ordinary standard adding machine having nine printing orders. But bv a mere multiplication or duplication of the mechanism, provision may be made for effecting the cutout action at any other order or orders.

And it is equally obvious that the cut-out the springs 65, in engagement with the pivot pin 66 in the end of the crank connection 55, so that any movement of the said crank connection 55, in either direction, will be trans- The sectional view Fig. 9 shows the general relations of the adding a'ndprinting mechanisms. Each of the series ofmain adding levers '36 performs the three-fold function of rotating the corresponding adding wheel 68, by means'of the segment gear 69, of setting in position the type segment 20, by means of the connection 70, and of setting forward the tail-piece levers 29 so that their curved slots33 will be engaged by the comb-piece 32 when the latter is,,

subsequently rocked. downward. The movement of the aforesaid main-lever 36 is effected through the main-lever connection 71 that is pivoted upon said main-lever at 72. This main-lever connection is provided at its upper end with a cam-arm 73, adapted extent by the depression of one or another of the keys 76, each of said keys-being ar-' ranged to impinge against and shift one of the series of cams 77 that project upward from and are integral with the aforesaid sliding cam-bar. ment of the cam-bar is thus determined by the key that is depressed, and in-turn determines the extent to which the cam-stud 74 shall swing back the cam-arm 73 of the pivoted main-lever connection7l; and the extent to which the said, short or cam-arm of said connection is swung back deter- -mlI1S th6 extent to which the long or lower arm of said pivoted connection shall be swung forward. The extreme free end of said long arm of said connection 71 carries The extent of the movethe stud 78, and the extent to which said long arm is swung forward determines the engagement of said stud in one or another of the series of notches 79 in the forward end ofthe adding-arm 80 when the latter is rocked downward in the subsequent actuation of the machine. And the particular I notch in which the aforesaid stud happens to engage, of course, determines the extent to which the main-lever 36 will be pulled down by its connection 71, upon the aforesaid rocking of the adding-arm 80. The adding-arm is secured to the main rockshaft piece-81 and the rocking of said rockshaft piece, upon the pulling of the operating handle of the machine, efiects the movement of the adding-wheels and the positioning of the type-segments to the extent predetermined by the depressioniof the O0);- responding keys. v

82 is the numeral wheel stop that checks the forward movement of the numeral wheel effected by the segment gear 69, said stop being. actuated through the connection rod 83 whose lower end is pivotally secured to the forward end of the adding-arm.

84 is the back stop to prevent backward rotation of the numeral wheel. And the carrying from one, numeral wheel-to that of the next higher order is efiected :by the carrying-levers 85, with their carryingpawls 86 and carrying-stops 87, operating in the well known manner of the identical devices shown in the .hereinabo'ge mentioned patent to Felt and Wetmore No.

853,543; The numeralwheel mechanism is I of course duplicated as many times as there than all-the possible forms in which the said ally operable cipher cut-out is set forth in invention, as hereinafter claimed, may bev embodied and distinguished from prior devices.

The broad prior invention of'an optlonthe co-pending application of Wetmore, Serial No. 369,972, filed of even date herewith,

but said application does not disclose the feature of a selective optionally operative cipher cut-out whereby the operator may at ,will select either one ormore ofv a plurality of places, across the machine, at which to interrupt the automatic cipher transfer.

We claim 1. In a multiple-order adding-machine,

combination, adding and printing-mechanisms, automatic. cipher-printing mechanism, and optionally operable means where-' .by the automatic cipher-transfer to the right 'of either of a plurality of orders may be prevented, substantially as s ecified.

2. In a multiple-or tiple-order printing-mechanism, automatic cipher-printing mechanism, and optionally operable coupling devices whereby the typeimpre'ssion mechanisms of adjacent orders may be either coupled together or freed from each other at either of a plurality of v positions across the printing-line of the machine, substantially as specified.

3. In a multiple-order adding-machine, in combination, adding-mechanism, printingmechanism including the multiple springactuated type-hammers, automatic cipherprinting mechanism,and optionally operable coupling devices whereby the type-hammer' release-mechanisms of adjacent orders may be either coupled together or freed from each other at either of a plurality of places,

across the printing-line of the machine, substantially as specified.

1. In an adding-machine, in combination,

,multiple-order adding and printing-mechajn sms, automatic cipher-printing mechanism, and optionally operable means where by the automatic cipher transfer to the right of each of a plurality of contiguous orders may be prevented, substantially as specified. 5. In an adding-machine, in combination, multiple-order adding and printing-mechanisms, automatic cipher-printing mechanism, and optionally operable means whereby the automatic cipher transfer to the right of either of a plurality of contiguous orders may be prevented, substantially as specified.

6. In a multiple-order adding-machine, in combination, adding and printing-mechar a ding-machine in combination, adding-mechanism, mule jacent member, the coupler nisms, automatic cipher-printing. mecha- 65 clip 42 with its manually controlled actuating devices, substantially as specified.

8. In a machine of the character described, the combination of a series of im pression means coeperatively related for the printing of ciphers to right of numerals in decimal places where the amount to be recorded has no units, with provisions for discontinuing the cooperative relationship between adjacent members of the series of impression means; and manipulative means controlling said cooperative relationship and adjustable to effect discontinuance thereof between one or another pair of adjacent members of the series of impression means.

9. In a machine of the character de-- scribed, the combination'of a series of separately acting impression devices; movable couplers between the members of said seplers.

10. The combination with hammersand independently movable hammer-controlling members of a recording mechanism; of conplers pivotallymounted on certain .of'said members respectively for connection with and disconnection from adjacent members.

.11. The combination with transfer elements'of a recording mechanism, of contact blades pivoted to said elements, each blade movable into and out of position tojengage the adjacent element. I

12. In a printing adding machine, optionally operable mechanism for interrupting the automatic cipherrprinting to the right of'any order or simultaneously of several orders in the machine, substantially as de scribed.

13. In recording mechanism, the combina tion of hammers, independently movable hammer-controlling members, and a coupler pivotally mounted on one such member. and arranged'to be operated'upon by an ad acent member whereby the latter when op- Y erated. operates the member carrying the coupler. I

14. Inrecording mechanism, the combination of hammers, independently movable hammer-controlling members, and a coupler pivotally mounted on one such member and arranged. to be operatedupon byan aderally projecting stud normally extending aving a latunder a shoulder of the said adjacent member.

15. In recording mechanism, the com otally mounted on one such member and arranged to be operated upon by an adjacent member whereby the latter When operated operates the member carrying the coupler,

a pivoted finger in operative relation to the coupler, and a key applied to said finger.

17. In a printing adding-machine, movable connections normally coupling in series of printing devices of seyeral orders, to effect automatic cipher-printing, each of said connections being displaceable at the will of the operator, to efi'ect optional interruption of the automatic cipher-printing to the right 01"? any order or simultaneously of several orders in the machine, substantially as described.

CHARLES P. WETMORE. I FREDERICK A. NIEMANN.

i/Vitnesses:

H. A. LEAM, L. J. OTTEN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. (2.

[snub] 4 Signed and sealed this 6th day of April, 1)., 1915-.

It is hereby certified that in Letters. Patent No. 1,127,332 granted February 2,

1915, upon the application of Charles P. Wetmore and Frederick A. Niemann, of

follows: Page 1, line 23, and page 2, line 127, for the word presented read prevented; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oifice.

T. NEWTGN,

dotting Commissioner of Patents Chicago, Illinois, for an improvement in Selective Cipher Cut-Outs for Adding 1 Machines, an error appears "in the printed specification requiring correction as 

